Banana muffins

Reading The tea house on Mulberry Street I came across banana muffins and I was so eager to try them! They’re sunny, as the banana is, and they smell of topics. They come at the end of an hard working period… so here the recipe for my first gathering, the one helded by Gialla tra i fornelli!

Dry ingredients:

flour, 350gr

baking powder, 3 teaspoons

sugar, 110gr

grounded cinnamon, 1 teaspoon

vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon

Liquid ingredients:

coconut milk, 165ml

extra virgin olive oil, 100ml

eggs, 2grated apples, 260

grsmashed banana, 220gr

Garnish:

caster sugar

icing sugar, 5 tablespoons

Preheat the oven to 180°. Mix together all the dry ingredients and, in a separate bowl, all the liquid ingredients, but the grated apple and the smashed banana.Then, stir the banana and apple into the flour mixture until just combined, adding the liquid mixture at last.Spoon the mixture into muffin tins until you reach half of the quantity it can contain, sprinkle each muffin with some caster sugar.Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until cooked when tested with a skewer.Mix the icing sugar with some cold water teaspoons and you’ll have a simple icing for the muffins! Pour some icing drops over each muffin and leave it to cool.

What is sunshine for me? It is all resumed into this old Irish saying:

What does it matter if it rains outside,when the sun shines in your soul?